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Teaching and learning resources

A chart showing foods affected by toxicants, different charts showing
food toxicants such as groundnuts, maize and bread, samples of
FOR ONLINE READING ONLY
foods with toxicants
5.1 The concept of food toxicants

Teaching and learning steps

1. Use think-ink-pair-share or any other teaching techniques
to guide students in brainstorming on the concept of food
toxicants.
2. Guide students in manageable groups to search from the
internet or from various sources of information on toxicants
found in food.

5.2 Types of food toxicants

Teaching steps

1. Use gallery walk or any other methodology to guide students
to explore natural and chemical toxicants found in foods.
Make clarifications where necessary.

2. In manageable groups, guide students to view video or
images showing foods with natural and chemical toxicants.
Make clarifications where necessary.

3. Use jig saw or any other technique to guide students to
describe types of natural toxicants found in food including
toxicants of natural origin from plants and from microbes.

4. Use questions and answers or any other techniques to enable
students to explore examples of foods with toxicants and the
effects upon the consumption of toxicants in foods. Clear
any misconception.

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